Krillion Recorded answers
3,492 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the suffix as a filter rather than a search term. First, empty your memory of towns you already know, then deliberately shrink the scale: think of the smallest named places you have ever seen on a map, in a postal address or on a road sign, because that is where the density lies. Next, work the morphology: take a handful of common first elements and try attaching them to the ending, then do the reverse and test longer tails that merely contain it. Keep a running list and deduplicate hard, since variants differing by one letter are the difference between a fresh answer and a repeat. Finally, sweep beyond the familiar naming region into transliterated forms and multi-word official names, which is where the unclaimed entries concentrate.
Get a hint
Begin with the ending itself: it is one of the most productive settlement suffixes in a whole family of related naming traditions, so the pool runs to thousands of entries and the reward comes from depth rather than from spotting the pattern.
A little more
Move from endings to shapes: many qualifying names are compounds whose first element is a personal name, a tree, a stream or a direction word, and a large share hide the ending inside longer tails such as -ston, -nton or -lton, so scanning those patterns multiplies your list.
One step further
The richest seam is the tier most players skip: tiny hamlets, absorbed suburban districts, isolated parish centres and transliterated names from unrelated naming systems, where near-identical forms cluster and each fresh variant is still unclaimed.
Reveal answers 3,492
- CrichtonDeep Cut85points
- CrockertonDeep Cut85points
- CroftonDeep Cut85points
- CromptonDeep Cut85points
- CrontonDeep Cut85points
- CrookstonDeep Cut85points
- CropstonDeep Cut85points
- CroptonDeep Cut85points
- CrosbytonDeep Cut85points
- CrostonDeep Cut85points
- CrotonDeep Cut85points
- CrouchestonDeep Cut85points
- CroughtonDeep Cut85points
- CrowtonDeep Cut85points
- CroxtonDeep Cut85points
- CrucktonDeep Cut85points
- CrudgingtonDeep Cut85points
- CrushingtonDeep Cut85points
- CruztónDeep Cut85points
- CsurgónagymartonDeep Cut85points
- Cuarto CantónDeep Cut85points
- CubbingtonDeep Cut85points
- CublingtonDeep Cut85points
- CuchumtónDeep Cut85points
- CucklingtonDeep Cut85points
- CuddingtonDeep Cut85points
- CullomptonDeep Cut85points
- CulmingtonDeep Cut85points
- CummingstonDeep Cut85points
- CummingtonDeep Cut85points
- CumwhintonDeep Cut85points
- CumwhittonDeep Cut85points
- CuxtonDeep Cut85points
- DadlingtonDeep Cut85points
- DallingtonDeep Cut85points
- DalmellingtonDeep Cut85points
- DalstonDeep Cut85points
- DalswintonDeep Cut85points
- DalystonDeep Cut85points
- DaretonDeep Cut85points
- DarktonDeep Cut85points
- DarlastonDeep Cut85points
- DarlingtonDeep Cut85points
- DarlistonDeep Cut85points
- DarltonDeep Cut85points
- DarringtonDeep Cut85points
- DartingtonDeep Cut85points
- DartonDeep Cut85points
- DaveystonDeep Cut85points
- DaveytonDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
A flat top tells the story: 3349 of the 3472 recorded answers sit on 85 points, so the scorer accepted almost any genuine settlement and then separated players by duplication rather than by obscurity alone. The solitary 100 went to Thaton, the rarest entry the scorer recognised, while entries such as Abberton and Accrington held 85 but shared their credit with a crowd. The 99 answers at 60 most plausibly represent the widely repeated choices, still correct but crowded enough for the overlap penalty to bite. Rarity therefore paid in one direction only: not exotic spelling for its own sake, but distance from whatever the average solver types first. A one-letter variant of a popular name earns less than an unfashionable hamlet, and the multi-word, hyphenated and transliterated forms in the list are the ones that stayed cheap to claim. Depth of recall beat cleverness.